Patricia Moulton: Dental therapy holds promise for Vermonters
October 13, 2019
VERMONT DIGGER
The president of Vermont Technical College writes about her school’s plan for its dental therapy program to change oral health in Vermont.
The president of Vermont Technical College writes about her school’s plan for its dental therapy program to change oral health in Vermont.
A hotly debated bill to authorize dental therapists in Wisconsin will be heard again this fall in the legislature.
Julie Grace, policy analyst at the Badger Institute, shares her testimony to the Wisconsin Senate health committee in support of dental therapy. Grace describes the bill as a “common-sense” solution for improving dental care access.
A bill to authorize dental therapists in Wisconsin will have a hearing before the Senate’s health committee. A coalition of more than 50 groups faces opposition from the state dental association and the state’s dental school.
A national update on which states have recently authorized dental therapy and who may be next.
In this excerpt from her new book ‘Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America’, Mary Otto discusses the oral health challenges facing Alaska Native communities and the success they’ve found using dental therapists.
North Caroline Health News reports on a recent forum on dental therapy hosted by the John Locke Foundation, a free-market think tank. A healthcare policy analyst, opened the discussion by calling dental therapy “has proven effective.”
Matthew Glans, senior policy analyst for the free-market think tank the Heartland Institute, discusses two proposed bills that would allow dental therapists to practice in Florida.
Pastor Ben Larzelere describes the oral health crisis facing New Mexico and how elders, people with disabilities, tribal communities, and veterans disproportionately suffer. He urges the gov’t to authorize dental therapists to remedy this health crisis.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel covers Wisconsin Gov. Tony Ever’s proposal to authorize dental therapists, the plan’s support from a bipartisan coalition, and the pushback he is facing from the state dental association.
The Statehouse News Services covers the multi-year effort by legislators in Massachusetts to authorize dental therapists as more than 250 supporters of the bill gather for a lobby day in the Statehouse.
Phillip Haunschild, senior policy analyst at the Idaho Freedom Foundation, highlights the benefits that authorizing dental therapists could have in Idaho
